How can I merge this mesh?

How can I merge this mesh?
by Alex Shirman on Jul 6, 2011 at 1:41:44 am

Been working on this thing for over a week and I'm completely stumped.

What I'm aiming for is this:

I managed to make the warp tunnels via a shrinkwarp deformer. However, I've hit a wall at the merging of the warped locations. The hard part also is that this must be animated and rendered in wireframe.

Here's the whole thing, it's a single plane bent onto itself:

This is the regular object:

And this is the hypernurbed version:

How can I make the two tunnels look seamless like the first picture? I'd like to keep it sans-hypernurbs as it makes the wireframe easier to see, however the wireframe starts to get ugly as hell without it.

Did you connect the mesh at the connection points? It seems to me, that you only dragged the upper and lower points to the same location, without welding them. Of course, I could be wrong, then I don't know ;-)

So its a parametric object? I see....
Did you use the symmetry object to mirror the upper and lower part? I am not sure at the moment, but I think you can check a check-box there that allows melting the two sides.
The problem is, that Hyper-Nurbs "sees" the cut in the middle and therefore rounds it up on this location. You will have to find a way to connect the upper and lower part. I don't see any reason why you cannot convert the mesh to an editable mesh. You can use your deformers there too to animate everything. Properly connecting the two parts will get rid of the Hyper-Nurbs problem.

Ah, that's a bit tricky then. The only way I can think of to do it is to use the connect object to weld the points when they get close enough together. Basically that means that you would have to use point-level animation to move the wormhole sections towards each other. To avoid the dense HN mesh use as little geometry as possible. If you have Sketch and Toon you could also render the isoparm lines instead of the actual wireframe (looks better, IMO).